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<div class='os'><span class='ot'><a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2016/04/14/What-is-a-Photographer'>&#x201c;Photographer&#x201d;?</a></span>&nbsp;&#xb7;&nbsp;<span class='ofp'>Every&#xad;one takes pic&#xad;tures ev&#xad;ery&#xad;where now, 24/7/365. So does &#x201c;photographer&#x201d;, in the am&#xad;a&#xad;teur sense, still mean any&#xad;thing? I have pic&#xad;tures and ques&#xad;tions that say it does</span><span class='el'><a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2016/04/14/What-is-a-Photographer'>&#xa0;...</a></span><br/> <i>[6 comments]</i>&#xa0;&#xa0;</div>
<div class='os'><span class='ot'><a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2016/04/11/Audio-repair'>Speaker Dust Cap Dent Repair</a></span>&nbsp;&#xb7;&nbsp;<span class='ofp'>As pre&#xad;vi&#xad;ous&#xad;ly not&#xad;ed in this space, I&#x2019;m a de&#xad;ranged au&#xad;dio&#xad;phile, and for some  years my speak&#xad;ers of choice have been from <a href='https://totemacoustic.com/en/'>Totem</a>, out of Montr&#xe9;al. In a  re&#xad;cent ren&#xad;o&#xad;va&#xad;tion a woofer got a dent in a <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_cap'>dust cap</a>, where by &#x201c;dent&#x201d; I mean it was pushed in. I&#x2019;m post&#xad;ing the so&#xad;lu&#xad;tion here in the hopes that fu&#xad;ture searchers will find it</span><span class='el'><a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2016/04/11/Audio-repair'>&#xa0;...</a></span><br/> <i>[4 comments]</i>&#xa0;&#xa0;</div>
<div class='os'><span class='ot'><a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2016/04/07/Graph-it'>Getting the Picture</a></span>&nbsp;&#xb7;&nbsp;<span class='ofp'>It&#x2019;s like this: Aver&#xad;ages are your en&#xad;e&#xad;my be&#xad;cause they hide change. Mak&#xad;ing graphs is easy and cheap and some&#xad;times they un&#xad;cov&#xad;er se&#xad;cret&#xad;s; more of us should do it more</span><span class='el'><a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2016/04/07/Graph-it'>&#xa0;...</a></span><br/> <i>[1 comment]</i>&#xa0;&#xa0;</div>
<div class='os'><span class='ot'><a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2016/04/01/Cool-Aussie-Phoners'>Cool Aussie Phoners</a></span>&nbsp;&#xb7;&nbsp;<span class='ofp'>What the ti&#xad;tle says: Three pho&#xad;tos of Aussies hold&#xad;ing phones look&#xad;ing cool</span><span class='el'><a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2016/04/01/Cool-Aussie-Phoners'>&#xa0;...</a></span><br/>&#xa0;</div>
<div class='os'><span class='ot'><a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2016/03/31/Serverlessness'>Serverlessness</a></span>&nbsp;&#xb7;&nbsp;<span class='ofp'>To&#xad;day Mi&#xad;crosoft an&#xad;nounced <a href='https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/functions/'>Azure Func&#xad;tions</a>, join&#xad;ing <a href='https://cloud.google.com/functions/docs'>Google Cloud Func&#xad;tions</a>    and (from 2014) <a href='https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/details/'>AWS Lamb&#xad;da</a>. This is fun stuff, and might be a big deal</span><span class='el'><a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2016/03/31/Serverlessness'>&#xa0;...</a></span><br/> <i>[3 comments]</i>&#xa0;&#xa0;</div>
<div class='os'><span class='ot'><a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2016/03/28/Mobile-Aerials'>Mobile Aerials</a></span>&nbsp;&#xb7;&nbsp;<span class='ofp'>A lit&#xad;tle while ago I tweet&#xad;ed &#x201c;One thing phone-cams aren&#x2019;t much good for is shoot&#xad;ing out air&#xad;plane windows.&#x201d; Since then, I&#x2019;ve no&#xad;ticed my Nexus 5X look&#xad;ing at me in a hurt sort of way</span><span class='el'><a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2016/03/28/Mobile-Aerials'>&#xa0;...</a></span><br/> <i>[1 comment]</i>&#xa0;&#xa0;</div>
<div class='os'><span class='ot'><a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2016/03/27/Practical-photography'>Lenses and Cameras in 2016</a></span>&nbsp;&#xb7;&nbsp;<span class='ofp'>I&#x2019;m on the way back from a cou&#xad;ple of weeks in Aus&#xad;trali&#xad;a, and of course Pic&#xad;tures Were Tak&#xad;en. I brought al&#xad;most all my photo-gear but used it very un&#xad;even&#xad;ly; con&#xad;clud&#xad;ed that I have too many lens&#xad;es, and was left won&#xad;der&#xad;ing whether you re&#xad;al&#xad;ly even need a cam&#xad;era any more. Here&#xad;with notes il&#xad;lus&#xad;trat&#xad;ed with Pacific-ocean (most&#xad;ly) pic&#xad;tures</span><span class='el'><a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2016/03/27/Practical-photography'>&#xa0;...</a></span><br/> <i>[4 comments]</i>&#xa0;&#xa0;</div>
<div class='os'><span class='ot'><a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2016/03/18/Parrot-story'>Galah Story</a></span>&nbsp;&#xb7;&nbsp;<span class='ofp'>We&#x2019;re vis&#xad;it&#xad;ing friends in Aus&#xad;tralia and I watched a pair of <s>par&#xad;rots</s>   in&#xad;ter&#xad;act  (oop&#xad;s, Mar&#xad;ius Coomans writes from Aus&#xad;tralia to tell me they&#x2019;re Galah&#xad;s);  pho&#xad;tographed them, but didn&#x2019;t un&#xad;der&#xad;stand. Oh, and a koala</span><span class='el'><a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2016/03/18/Parrot-story'>&#xa0;...</a></span><br/> <i>[2 comments]</i>&#xa0;&#xa0;</div>
<div class='os'><span class='ot'><a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2016/03/07/City-Thinking'>Urbanity</a></span>&nbsp;&#xb7;&nbsp;<span class='ofp'>Ci&#xad;ties are our rule now, any&#xad;thing else the ex&#xad;cep&#xad;tion.  I&#x2019;m bik&#xad;ing most work&#xad;days, on con&#xad;crete over the ocean in&#xad;to the  stone heart of a small big city, get&#xad;ting ten dozen chan&#xad;nels of non&#xad;stop  ur&#xad;ban in&#xad;put and ev&#xad;ery day I won&#xad;der where we&#x2019;re all go&#xad;ing.  The fu&#xad;ture is  dis&#xad;tribut&#xad;ed un&#xad;even&#xad;ly and&#x2009;cities con&#xad;cen&#xad;trate the  un&#xad;even&#xad;ness</span><span class='el'><a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2016/03/07/City-Thinking'>&#xa0;...</a></span><br/> <i>[1 comment]</i>&#xa0;&#xa0;</div>
<div class='os'><span class='ot'><a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2016/02/28/Lightroom-Mobile-Nexus'>Lightroom, Mobile, Nexus</a></span>&nbsp;&#xb7;&nbsp;<span class='ofp'>In which I re&#xad;port on us&#xad;ing the Nexus 5X in RAW mod&#xad;e, with the help of  Adobe Light&#xad;room, and on work&#xad;flows for mo&#xad;bile pho&#xad;togs.  With il&#xad;lus&#xad;tra&#xad;tions from Vancouver&#x2019;s <a href='http://westvancouver.ca/parks-recreation/parks/lighthouse-park'>Light&#xad;house Park</a></span><span class='el'><a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2016/02/28/Lightroom-Mobile-Nexus'>&#xa0;...</a></span><br/> <i>[3 comments]</i>&#xa0;&#xa0;</div>
<div class='os'><span class='ot'><a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2016/02/24/Dell-U3415W'>Dell U3415W</a></span>&nbsp;&#xb7;&nbsp;<span class='ofp'>34&#x22;, 21:9, 3440x1440.  Which is to say, pret&#xad;ty  big and pret&#xad;ty sharp.  Full name: <a href='http://amzn.to/1TGwAED'>Dell Ul&#xad;traSharp 34 Curved Mon&#xad;i&#xad;tor</a>. It&#x2019;s curved. I like it a lot</span><span class='el'><a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2016/02/24/Dell-U3415W'>&#xa0;...</a></span><br/> <i>[9 comments]</i>&#xa0;&#xa0;</div>
<div class='os'><span class='ot'><a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2016/02/20/High-Tech-Corporate-English'>Modern Corporate English</a></span>&nbsp;&#xb7;&nbsp;<span class='ofp'>&#x201c;The client&#x2019;s ask is simple,&#x201d; he said, &#x201c;but I&#x2019;m not con&#xad;vict&#xad;ed that&#x2019;s a good cri&#xad;te&#xad;ri&#xad;a; any&#xad;how, there are im&#xad;por&#xad;tant learn&#xad;ings for us.&#x201d; How much of that do you hate? What&#xad;ev&#xad;er; liv&#xad;ing lan&#xad;guages don&#x2019;t care what you think</span><span class='el'><a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2016/02/20/High-Tech-Corporate-English'>&#xa0;...</a></span><br/> <i>[15 comments]</i>&#xa0;&#xa0;</div>
<div class='os'><span class='ot'><a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2016/02/13/Ingress-at-the-cottage'>CL XXXVI: Island Ingress</a></span>&nbsp;&#xb7;&nbsp;<span class='ofp'>On a wet grey Fe&#xad;bru&#xad;ary Satur&#xad;day we com&#xad;bined two of our amuse&#xad;ments on  a boat trip to <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keats_Island_(British_Columbia)'>Keats Is&#xad;land</a>: <a href='/ongoing/What/The%20World/Cottage%20Life/'>Cot&#xad;tage Life</a>  and <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingress_(video_game)'>Ingress</a>. Some of this will be com&#xad;pre&#xad;hen&#xad;si&#xad;ble on&#xad;ly to Ingress play&#xad;er&#xad;s, but there are a cou&#xad;ple of fair&#xad;ly groovy pix.<br/>    Up&#xad;dat&#xad;ed with <a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2016/02/13/Ingress-at-the-cottage#apology'>an apol&#xad;o&#xad;gy</a></span><span class='el'><a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2016/02/13/Ingress-at-the-cottage'>&#xa0;...</a></span><br/>&#xa0;</div>
<div class='os'><span class='ot'><a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2016/02/05/Low-Light-Phonecam'>Low-light Phone cam</a></span>&nbsp;&#xb7;&nbsp;<span class='ofp'>Reg&#xad;u&#xad;lar read&#xad;ers will know that I have a thing about low-light pho&#xad;tog&#xad;ra&#xad;phy. My new photo-toy is the Nexus 5X and I&#x2019;ve the urge to push it fur&#xad;ther in&#xad;to the dark than it re&#xad;al&#xad;ly wants to go</span><span class='el'><a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2016/02/05/Low-Light-Phonecam'>&#xa0;...</a></span><br/> <i>[1 comment]</i>&#xa0;&#xa0;</div>
<div class='os'><span class='ot'><a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2016/02/02/RIP-Marlowe'>Marlowe, RIP</a></span>&nbsp;&#xb7;&nbsp;<span class='ofp'>Our big male cat, <a href='/ongoing/When/200x/2005/09/25/Marlowe'>an&#xad;nounced in this space</a>   in 2005, died sud&#xad;den&#xad;ly. Bloggers&#x2019; cats get obit&#xad;u&#xad;ar&#xad;ies</span><span class='el'><a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2016/02/02/RIP-Marlowe'>&#xa0;...</a></span><br/> <i>[6 comments]</i>&#xa0;&#xa0;</div>
<div class='os'><span class='ot'><a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2016/01/19/Bike2WorkPix'>#Bike2WorkPix</a></span>&nbsp;&#xb7;&nbsp;<span class='ofp'>I&#x2019;ve been cy&#xad;cling to work since late last year. It&#x2019;s good, for me and the  world. But there are more con&#xad;ve&#xad;nient al&#xad;ter&#xad;na&#xad;tives, and they temp&#xad;t. So here&#x2019;s  a lit&#xad;tle in&#xad;cen&#xad;tive: <a href='https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Bike2WorkPix'>#Bike2WorkPix</a>. Con&#xad;sid&#xad;er join&#xad;ing in!</span><span class='el'><a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2016/01/19/Bike2WorkPix'>&#xa0;...</a></span><br/> <i>[4 comments]</i>&#xa0;&#xa0;</div>
<div class='os'><span class='ot'><a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2016/01/24/Tender-Sky-Shoehorn'>Tender Sky Shoehorn</a></span>&nbsp;&#xb7;&nbsp;<span class='ofp'>In which I re&#xad;veal a lit&#xad;tle life-hack that can get you out your front door no&#xad;tice&#xad;ably quick&#xad;er. First, a pic&#xad;ture</span><span class='el'><a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2016/01/24/Tender-Sky-Shoehorn'>&#xa0;...</a></span><br/> <i>[4 comments]</i>&#xa0;&#xa0;</div>
<div class='os'><span class='ot'><a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2016/01/17/5X'>On the Nexus 5X</a></span>&nbsp;&#xb7;&nbsp;<span class='ofp'>Wel&#xad;l, the <a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2015/04/16/One-Plus-Four'>OnePlus One</a>  was a  lot of phone for the mon&#xad;ey but, on&#xad;ly a year old, is dy&#xad;ing; the GPS has checked  out and the pic&#xad;tures it takes look bad. I didn&#x2019;t feel like  phone-shopping but when I did, the 5X was an easy choice. It&#x2019;s just fine, but  on&#xad;ly three fea&#xad;tures mat&#xad;ter. With win&#xad;ter beach pix</span><span class='el'><a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2016/01/17/5X'>&#xa0;...</a></span><br/> <i>[5 comments]</i>&#xa0;&#xa0;</div>
<div class='os'><span class='ot'><a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2016/01/11/CloudWatch-Events'>Cloud Eventing</a></span>&nbsp;&#xb7;&nbsp;<span class='ofp'>So, I helped build Ama&#xad;zon CloudWatch Events (<a href='https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-cloudwatch-events-track-and-respond-to-changes-to-your-aws-resources/'>blog</a>, <a href='https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/home?region=us-east-1#events:'>AWS con&#xad;sole</a>), which just launched. Been a while since my last ex&#xad;tend&#xad;ed spell of be&#xad;ing an ac&#xad;tu&#xad;al soft&#xad;ware en&#xad;gi&#xad;neer. Ship&#xad;ping feels good</span><span class='el'><a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2016/01/11/CloudWatch-Events'>&#xa0;...</a></span><br/> <i>[1 comment]</i>&#xa0;&#xa0;</div>
<div class='os'><span class='ot'><a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2015/12/28/Mobile-Theses'>Mobile Counter-theses</a></span>&nbsp;&#xb7;&nbsp;<span class='ofp'>This is in re&#xad;sponse to <a href='http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2015/12/15/16-mobile-theses'>16 mo&#xad;bile the&#xad;ses</a>  by <a href='http://ben-evans.com/'>Bene&#xad;dict Evans</a>  of An&#xad;dreesen Horow&#xad;itz,  a firm that&#x2019;s cen&#xad;tral to Bay Area VC cul&#xad;ture. The the&#xad;ses are about  half wrong, which isn&#x2019;t too bad</span><span class='el'><a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2015/12/28/Mobile-Theses'>&#xa0;...</a></span><br/> <i>[6 comments]</i>&#xa0;&#xa0;</div>
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